Raymond McCreesh

Raymond McCreesh (25 February 1957-21 May 1981) was a Provisional IRA volunteer and one of ten people to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike at Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.

Biography
Raymond McCreesh was born in Camlough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland on 25 February 1957, and he was active with the Irish republican movement from the age of 16. In 1973, he joined the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA at the start of The Troubles, and he was captured during a failed ambush against British Army paratroopers in 1976. On 2 March 1977, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison, and he joined the 1981 Irish hunger strike at Maze Prison to protest the poor conditions faced by the prisoners. He died after going 61 days without eating.